Assignment Editor/Digital Content Producer

KSNW is looking for a dynamic journalist who thrives on breaking news, enterprise stories, and implements urgent coverage on broadcast, digital and streaming platforms to join our team as a full-time assignment editor and digital content producer. The ideal candidate understands how to cover spot news with urgency and attention to detail, and has an understanding of cross-platform, multi-media coverage, including broadcast, digital, social media and streaming apps, like KSN+. Must have excellent news judgment and instincts, with the ability to find stories that will help make our content unique and distinctive. You should be a highly motivated, organized, multi-tasker. You should be a good communicator with people in the newsroom and crews in the field. You should be a natural leader who can instantly take charge during breaking news. A curious mind, investigational skills and the ability to dig deeper into a story is essential.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with news team to make coverage decisions
• Assign, communicate, and coordinate logistics for story coverage including dispatching crews
• Assist with newsgathering and research for stories through calls, text, email 
• Lead the charge on mining social media, confirming information to disseminate to the newsroom
• Be the voice to viewer calls and the face to KSN guests/interviewees
• Coordinate interviews and segments for broadcast and digital platforms, including podcasts, live newscasts and taped segments
• Write/publish/edit digital stories for multiple platforms, including social media, website and streaming apps
• Coordinate streaming coverage and scheduling of live events, breaking news and podcasts with digital team 
• Keep the newsroom organized and functioning seamlessly 
• Coordinate communication and content sharing between Nexstar Stations
• Lead special event planning and other advance credentialing

Requirements & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
• Fluency in English, bilingual Spanish a plus
• Must have superior organizational skills
• Must be able to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments, and handle multiple tasks
• Must be able to make decisions and take a leadership role
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Experience in news operations preferred
• Strong understanding of digital platforms, including social media and streaming.
• Proficiency with newsroom, digital and streaming computer systems, editing, camera equipment, computers, telephones, and other office equipment; willingness to learn new systems.
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Flexibility to work evening and other shifts as assigned

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